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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by andrewflnr »

thefourthchime wrote: post #219
andrewflnr wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that this is a good defense, but I think "genuinely scared for his or his child's safety" is a real possibility. Especially if he (rightly or wrongly, no comment there) thinks someone threatened his child... well, protecting your children is one of the more powerful instincts humans have, one of the handful powerful enough to outweigh an ego like Elon's. Plus he has to be at least a little frazzled by Twitter hav…

I like how he’s all of a sudden someone who pretends to spend any time with his countless children from countless wives. A family man isn’t a brand he’s been going for up until now.

Well, no, primal fear alone doesn't make you a good father, quite possibly the opposite if that's all you have.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by zmgsabst »

gcbirzan wrote: post #308
m3kw9 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go out just a little bit not everyone hates him. Personally I think he hasn’t don’t anything overt yet. So he banned a few journalists, do you know why? No right? So why judge so early?

Yeah, we do. He said that they were banned for linking to other social media of ElonJet.

So… journalists responded to a policy against doxxing by doxxing the owner of the company and then cried when they got banned?

…and I’m supposed to care?

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by D-Coder »

lettergram wrote: post #238
afavour wrote: post #22

So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.

> So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. He also brought back a ton of banned people … who were similarly banned without explanation. In this case, he needs to set rules and judges for his kingdom if he wants a certain group to keep using it. As an aside, one of the people banned was known to take clip…

> one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context

Certainly a good reason to ban everyone who had the same vowel in their name... or something.

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Post by theteapot »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #158
afavour wrote: post #22

So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.

It seems as though he's entered his "let's build large airplanes out of spruce" stage.

*Spaceships out of stainless steel. Good on him though.

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Post by FooHentai »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #158
afavour wrote: post #22

So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.

It seems as though he's entered his "let's build large airplanes out of spruce" stage.

cocks gun I said Get. In.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by adrr »

programmarchy wrote: post #246
c54 wrote: post #29

The wave of bans from the muskjet thing has been quite dramatic. It'll be interesting to see if the people who've been lauding musk for his supposedly pro free speech attitudes will reckon with what's been happening in actuality, or if they'll just accept this as "freedom for me but not for thee".

Doxxing adds nothing to the conversation. It’s not an opinion, an argument, or an artful expression — forms that free speech laws are designed to protect. Rather, doxxing is merely harassment and adds nothing substantive. Same argument can be made for racial slurs and the like. Anyone pretending otherwise is being disingenuous.

You don't have right to privacy when you fly your jet in public airspace. Elon has a choice, he can take commercial. Just like you don't the right privacy when people take pictures of your house as proven with the famous Streisand case. Do you think Streisand case should have went the other way?

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Post by GoofballJones »

barbariangrunge wrote: post #296

> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply. > It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old. It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it c…

Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned.

The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year old.

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